The Hindu 07.10.2010
Collector asks municipalities to do away with community dustbins
Staff Reporter
Guntur: Municipalities in the district should be free of community dustbins by January 31, 2011, district Collector B. Ramanjaneyulu said on Wednesday. At a meting of Special Officers and Municipal Commissioners of 11 municipalities convened by the Regional Director of Municipal Administration Karuna Chandra Babu, the Collector stressed on augmenting the door-to-door collection of solid waste in municipalities.
The meeting discussed sanitation, supply of drinking water and revenue collection.
Municipalities should strictly adhere to two-bin collection in which the solid waste is segregated at source into bio-degradable, non-bio degradable and inert waste. In places where the tri-cycles failed, the municipalities could outsource solid waste collection to autos, he said.
Each automan could be given a task of covering 800-1,000 households per day and segregated solid waste could be recycled.
Mr. Babu said that community dustbins should be done away with and replaced with hanging dustbins kept at important junctions. The process could be taken up in a phased manner in all the municipalities, he said.
Scientific disposal
Scientific disposal of solid waste had been gaining ground and more municipalities started adhering to Municipal Solid Waste Management & Handling Rules Act formulated by the Central Government in 2000, he said. The Collector also suggested that municipalities may emulate Tenali, which bagged the national prize in sanitation. The municipalities should gear up for fresh outbreak of seasonal fevers and should undertake intensive fogging, spraying and dropping oil balls in drains to effectively destroy mosquito larvae, he said.
Joint Collector and in-charge Commissioner of Guntur Municipal Corporation A. Sarath said that all Commissioners should take up morning visits regularly.
A pin-point action plan should be made converging different aspects of sanitation, he said. Mr. Sarath also said that the revenue collection would be augmented in Guntur with an upward revision of 20 per cent in property tax collection.
